Monday Jan 12 3:16 PM
Actor Anupam Kher is one angry man these days. The vereran actor has been nominated for his performance in A Wednesday for the Screen Awards, but in the supporting actor category and not best actor.
Naseeruddin Shah, who is also in the film, has been nominated in the best actor category for the same movie but not Kher. It really seems quite silly as both actors have roles which are equally important. In fact, one would not be wrong to say that both actors are the film's leading actors. In fact, along with Kher, actor Jimmy Shergill and Aamir Bashir too have received nominations in the supporting actor category. Their roles were definitely supporting ones, and cannot quite be compared to Kher's role. Hence, it does seem that the actor's anger is quite justified. Kher is believed to have gone on re cord and said that while he had nothing against Naseer, he did not feel that his role in A Wednesday was that of a supporting actor. It is believed that director Neeraj Pandey too is quite upset on Kher's behalf. What has really hurt Kher the most is that he rarely gets the kind of meaty role that he got in A Wednesday. The majority of his roles in mainstream Hindi films have been of a supporting nature. It's been a long while since he has played a major role like this and then to have certain people term it as a supporting role is like adding insult to injury.